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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 12m

I mean, there's always Amerigo Vespucci. Though, it's always his holiday as we named the entire continent after him.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 55m

This is an actual Nazi rally.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 5h

People can be jerks, to be certain. But, institutions will always be jerks, no matter what you try to do them, is my point. They can't help it. Institutions are machines, not living, breathing people.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 5h

I want to overthrow McDonald's, specifically, in this case. I think we are still reckoning what they've had a hand in doing to American health in general. And I'm old enough to remember people being fired. Though, I was a child. I also remember it was the people and activists who changed that.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 5h

And when the winds shift? like with Target? what then? You put a lot more faith into institutions than I do. If they become an obstacle, then they are an enemy to be overthrown. Same is if someone is a moral coward.

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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 8h

More than 400 trees were cut down in D.C.'s East Potomac Park this weekend. A furious federal judge said the government failed to give proper notice of the work amid an ongoing lawsuit.

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Furious judge orders freeze after 400 trees are cut down in East Potomac Park

The Trump administration says the tree removal has nothing to do with the president’s plan to renovate the park into a championship-level golf course.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 7h

To ask the philosophical question then, if something is inauthentic, what value can it truly have?

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 7h

I respectfully disagree. I don't see it as the slightest bit authentic. More a result of cold calculus than that of moral resolve. I'm sorry.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 7h

All these years with Octavia Butler and Ursula K Le Guin... And I never realized I was gay for it...

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 7h

"Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?!" -President Trump, apparently

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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 12h

Update: per an October 11th 2026 FEC filing, the TFM/"Democrats for Mike Rogers" Super PAC spent over four million additional dollars on the Michigan Senate race over the weekend, bringing the total spent to date to $4,376,550. (The receipts are out of order, the highest total is on page 3.)

page 1 of report of independent expenditures from October 11th 2026 by TFM/Democrats for Mike Rogers

page 2 of report of independent expenditures from October 11th 2026 by TFM/Democrats for Mike Rogers

page 3 of report of independent expenditures from October 11th 2026 by TFM/Democrats for Mike Rogers

page 4 of report of independent expenditures from October 11th 2026 by TFM/Democrats for Mike Rogers

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

POLITICAL RETRIBUTION Federal agents raided Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s DC home this morning. A sitting member of Congress who has repeatedly been targeted by Trump, now facing a federal investigation over immigration paperwork her father completed when she was a child. A CHILD.

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 21h

Betting on elections being this normalized to the point of being treated as equivalent to polling is underrated as a dystopian aspect of modern politics

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 21h

These people are all just jealous of James Talarico's hot girlfriend. And the way Muskgrave warmed up to him. Hell, I'm a little jealous, but at least I admit that, so we can all move forward in a healthy manner.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 21h

Women in general are routinely subject to AI sexsploitation via Grok, as well.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 22h

A mass doxxing and harassment campaign against women claimed to be the Cornell 7 case Jane Doe has been ongoing on X for several weeks now.

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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈 @misskitty.art · 11/10/2026

Homelessness reduces human identity to an institutional label: "service user." Secure tenancies allow individuals to rebuild civic roles, kinship, and autonomy. Help educate local service providers: housing restores the positive identity necessary for self-worth. #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingFirst

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Still, this is a happy day to see any blow struck to Russian propaganda efforts, and the right-wing stooges that they employ. -Cheers, friends.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Things like retweet bots, and other minor operations. Russia has since 2018 preferred to fund influencers directly, then, boost them with their own botnets. This strike does not remove the influencers, though it will effect their reach on most platforms. Moderate your expectations, please.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In time, however, with hardware costs what they are, we will see exorbitant expenditures for Russia to recover their propaganda position. Which was likely one of the main points of this strike. In the end, a lot of the propaganda loss was in the self-reinforcing aspects of their network: retweets

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

even more importantly, time. Battles against bot farms like this are more like a Naval battle, all about maneuver and position, rather than a single, heroic charge, you see? Doubtless, this cost Russia tens of millions of dollars, and weeks of time, but, they will recover operations.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The context being that this is indicative of a lack of self-reinforcement in their bot networks, and how they operate. I can assure you, this is not the End of Russian Trollbots, or anything of the sort. The war against bots is a war of attrition. Your best bet is to cost the botmakers money, and

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'll lend my expertise, so let's go over this shall we? It is true Russian bot activity has decreased since the Yandex strike. Real impressions on AfD and other Right-Wing yahoos online are down across the board. Undeniably, this is great news, but, we also need to take it into greater context.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Most nuclear weapons are air-burst though. Really only about two weeks for the radiation to subside at ground zero, for temp patrol. On the other hand, stable silicon-based products are among the most likely to survive, so the pic is totally accurate.

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General Strike @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

500 years from now when archaeologists unearth Mar-a-lardo…

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

*Takes a deep breath to try to calm down* *Fails, and just screams all the louder*

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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 10/10/2026

Why wait for your database to be hacked if you can just publish private passport data to a public PDS straight away?

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Autumnal Astrid🍂 @namitomoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Americans come up every day with new types of blasphemies not even the most radical Jacobin could have dreamed of.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Aren't you just a blossoming flower of love. . . Listen, give me a rifle. I'll take care of it, and then you can feel free to hate me. I really don't care.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's not a zoo, it's a "preserve" and different nations define what that is differently. Also, what they are used for is very different from place to place too. I'm not familiar with this one, whether it is a rehab-type, or what.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I can't hide replies. Only Bsky mods can do that, silly.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Then my point is that we cannot rule this out as an act of murder.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Do you know what kind of Enclosure this was? Because I don't, I'm not familiar with this preserve. No matter how severe, a learning disability should not get you through the two layers of wire fencing and the unclimbable ditch that should be separating humans from tigers.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Almost certainly they'll kill the tiger. I don't know what this "preserve" is like, but after a tiger kills once, it becomes vastly more aggressive against humans. The risk is too high.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They're still likely to kill the tiger when no one is looking. Tigers who kill then become vastly more aggressive against humans.

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Was there a child in the enclosure? Secret communiques that could end nuclear war forever? Something else of great importance? Because if not, then this one might just be on him. And now, a tiger has to die, too. After a Tiger Kills, it's vastly more aggressive to all humans.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 10/10/2026

You crazy mad lad, I love ya, never change you beautiful weirdo

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So, while Trump is pouting about not getting a Nobel Prize, two people at least have died from Hurricane Isaiahs. How long you think til he acknowledges anything about the storm? www.nbcnews.com/weather/hurr...

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Live updates: At least two people killed as Isaias pushes inland, further weakens

The storm weakened overnight after making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane near Destin, Florida.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To recap: Drag Shows ❌ Miss Rachel ❌ Books ❌ Public executions ✅

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a slug🍚🐝🌱🦌💽🫙🚉 @drunk.moe · 10/10/2026

Post commercial gas station prices

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Colin Gubbins @colingubbins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Needful things: Man realizes dream of opening a curio shop in picturesque New England, is welcomed by the community.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Protestant Franco” has got to be one of the all time dumbest things a human has ever said. But it’s also indicative of just how common Franco worship has become among today’s “founder loving conservatives.” bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

just call him charles hemingnoway

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